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I moved to Downing Rd and found that I had no signal. I complained to T-Mobile and they sold me a new phone. I still get zero bars. Not enough towers in town.

Reception was okay til Summer 2006, now dropped calls, can't make calls, 0 bars in places where friends have full signal. Will go from No Service to 5 bars to No service in seconds... Cancelling the service.

Reception is spotty at best. I can get 5 bars if I travel half a mile towards town. This is sad because a Verizon phone at the same location will get 5 bars.

Tmobile service in Bangor / Brewer is good and consitant if you are in town. Its ok if you head up river to Orono and ok down the 95 corridor until Hampden. Anywhere else in the Bangor area is spotty at best. Heading south on 95 after Hampden you might get blessed with spotty service until you hit Augusta from there it seems to work just fine all the way down to MA.

I have Cingular, my wife has Unicel. 7 1 / 2 miles from I-95 on Rt 15 in Glenburn, can not get signal.

US Cellular has the best reception since they switched to CDMA. I have friends that work for Unicel and swear by that, but they are on the new digital thing. Problem with that is, Maine isn't digital everywhere. At least with US Cellular, if there isn't a digital signal, at least I get an analog signal most of the time.

Works OK in town, God help you if your headed anywhere north however. Especially out route 9 toward Calais.

Service in Bangor is terrible. I get 1 bar, then it goes to no bars then finnaly sometimes it can't connect to Cingular at all so it roams on T-Mobile and I get 4 bars. This is all at my house. I had USCC for 5 years and it was great. Switching was a terrible decision. Service in Bangor is terrible. I'm gonna cancel the contract. Cingular is a rip-off too.

I actually have Unicel GSM. Service is good almost everywhere I go, though there is poor / spotty reception along I95 in Etna, and also in downtown Pittsfield. There is supposed to be a tower going up in pittsfield soon, which will greatly improve that whole area. Overall I am very happy, though I think I travel around less than some people, so I would not notice if there was an issue in many areas.

We love our phones, we can go to branch lake and have all the bars. The only problems we have is when we are getting on the Interstate from Union St.to Broadway we have no reception and in Walmart in Bangor no reception either. Other than that we have good reception even at home. I would rather have a Bangor number rather than an Ellsworth number because it is long distance and racks up the phone bills, but no problems other than those 3.